Example sentences of "him [num ord] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | WORLD champion motor racing driver Nigel Mansell will earn nearly £10 million this year , putting him fourth on the list of the world 's highest-paid sportsmen . |
2 | He scored 48,892 runs for Hampshire at an average of 48.84 , and , in all first-class cricket , he accumulated no less than 55,061 ( average 47.67 ) , leaving him fourth in the world rankings . |
3 | ‘ Yeah , do that , ’ Joe suggested , and he walked over and put his hand behind the man 's head and pushed him face-first into the screen . |
4 | The masher 's intended victim was not quite so indecisive ; far from taking the opportunity to run off , leaving St George to fight the dragon on his own , she had taken the opportunity once her attacker 's attention had been diverted from her to remove her right shoe , and she now proceeded to attack him from the rear , pounding him first about the head and shoulders with the shoe , and then with her handbag shrieking , ‘ Take that , you cowardly bully , and that , ’ leaving him open to any attack Neil might care to make . |
5 | In On the Night of the Fire ( 1939 , The Fugitive in US ) , Ralph Richardson plays a small-town barber whose desire to be shot of a miserable life , ‘ earning a few quid a week and no hope of making anything more ’ leads him first to an act of casual theft , then murder . |
6 | Southey looked for him first at the Salutation and Cat in Newgate Street , where the landlord had given Coleridge free quarters because his conversation was so good for trade . |
7 | Mary Pat Kelly met him first in the mop room of the convent where she was studying to be a nun . |
8 | I met him first in the Lubyanka , that brick lump on Manchester 's Oxford Road that serves as home to the BMC . |